Ezekiel 21:26
Thus, saith My Lord. Yahweh, Remove the turban, And lift off the crown,— This not that, The abased, exalt, And the exalted, abase.
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1 Samuel 2:7Yahweh, maketh poor, and enricheth,—Layeth low, yea exalteth;
2 Kings 25:27And it came to pass, in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month,—that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, out of prison;
Psalms 113:7That raiseth, out of the dust, the poor, From the dunghill, uplifteth the needy;
Jeremiah 13:18Say thou to the king and to the queen-mother, Abase yourselves—Sit down,—For descended have your Head-tires, your Crown of adornment.
Jeremiah 52:9So they seized the king, and brought him up, unto the king of Babylon at Riblah, in the land of Hamath,—and he pronounced upon him sentences of judgment.
Lamentations 5:16Fallen is the crown of our head. Surely woe to us, for we have sinned.
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 21:19-28
Judgments Predicted. ( b. c. 592.) 18 The word of the Lord came unto me again, saying, 19 Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come forth out of one land: and choose thou a place, choose it at the head of the way to the city. 20 Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced. 21 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination:… Read the whole commentary →